Candidate positions on waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques

It's about keeping church and state, science and religion separate. I have taught in both a parochial and a public school and strongly believe in such a separation and that representatives of government to whom we entrust that separation to be objective.

Mitt Romney needs to release 10 years of tax returns to the American people to show how much he paid in taxes and whether he received amnesty from The IRS. We need this information to be an informed voter.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 which is a Federal Act has forgotten the mentally disabled community! Our law makers have failed to protect this very vulnerably and often indigent part of our society! This leads to bullying! Bullying of human beings that don't have the ability to protect themselves.

I saw one of the Clear Channel Communications billboards designed to suppress the black vote in Ohio today and am nonplused. It is bad enough that Clear Channel pays Rush Limbaugh but at least I can turn the radio to another station. I can't shut the billboard off.

Mental hospitals are rarely pleasant places to be. Obviously, that makes some level of sense, but when a respected hospital changes one's medications on a near-daily basis, there is something wrong. They also give "smoke breaks" in almost every hospital where everyone is offered a cigarette whether or not they smoke.

My name is Paula, and we are in a fight with Bank of America to save our home. Please help us! We have tried everything. Bank of America kept our $7,700 in insurance money after we spent over $12,000 of our own savings to repair our home after a devastating tornado and hailstorm in 2010, advised us to miss a house payment so that we would qualify for a loan modification (we had never missed a payment before), lied to us and the judge repeatedly about granting us the loan modification Sept 6,2011 where is the modification? GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK PLUS INTEREST!

It is infuriating that anti-abortionists have been allowed to coin the self description of "pro-life" when committment to it stops at the first breath. This is evident in every position Republican politicians take. They oppose planned parenthood, PBS, head start, after school programs, free school lunches, art and music in school, they oppose controlling guns or ammo clips by any degree, they declared a war on drugs and privatized jails, making penal systems a for profit business. They are always rushing to war. They oppose universal access to health care and cut WIC funding. That's how "pro-life" they are and I'm only skimming the surface so this petiton doesn't get too long. Now they have openly declared a plan to overturn Roe v Wade. Ryan stated it plainly. These religious fanatics want to impose their highly debatable religious ideas on everyone. If there is no seperation between church and state, then we'll have to start stoning adulterers to death. I would really like any far right christian to tell me about how different their theocratic ideas are from the taliban's shariah law. It offends me that they pretend it's biblical that life begins at conception. They didn't know any embryology 6 thousand years ago. Life has always been recognized as out of the womb viability, at the first breath; during pregnancy it was a potential, not a person. It is the difference between seed and fruit. I am old enough to remember women dying from illegal abortions performed by butchers with wire hangers. I am not going back there. These people are simply anti choice where women's choices are concerned and lassez faire where life after the first breath is concerned. Ryan argued that the Supreme Court wasn't the right body to legislate a national recognition of a women's right to choose. He said it should be decided state by state. A coin toss for 50 states. What else should be returned to the states? Slavery? Women's vote? It kills me to hear all their rhetoric about small government, it's code speak for deregulation of all industries...so that unwanted pregnancy will grow up to be a child who gets to hear that there used to be a clean air and water act, but it was bad for the job creators. They'll hear that there used to be a living minimum wage and worker protections, but those were bad for the job creators too. They'll hear that America used to be a participatory democracy, but then there was the Citizen's United Supreme Court decision. That one should be overturned, like separate is equal was! Yeah, small government, now small enough to fit inside my uterus. We say NO to transvaginal government. One last thing. In reaction to things I'd read on various political fact checking organizations, such as politifact's "truth-o-meter". I did a web search "mormon theology and moral stance on lying" Google's first page came back with multiple references to an unfamiliar expression- "Lying for God". The jist is that if lying protects their church or advances it's mission, then, person to person lies of commission, of omission are not immoral because god is served. That must explain how he can be such a consumate liar without even one micro tic. Lying for God...please tell Republican voters about that, but don't have sex with them if none of this changes their vote to any ticket except romney/ryan.

Wal-Mart shamefully brags that it doesn't insure its employees for health care because they are paid so little, they qualify for Medicaid! They even hand their employees information sheets how to sign up for food stamps, Medicaid and other government programs. The State Attorney Generals should sue Wal-Mart to cover the cost of benefits to its employees that Wal-Mart should be paying.

We have truth in advertising for businesses. Something as important as running our country, we allow our politicians to lie and mislead the public over our airwaves. Special interest groups can lie about political issues over the public airwaves. We have the right to expect truth over our public airwaves.

This is the most significant way to curtail global warming and increased asthma and rare cancers spreading from the source. With 35 spills since TarSands started using pipelines the record insures massive harms to the U.S. The key scientists studying global warming tell us it means game over to control it.

I have a student loan that increases in amount every month. I will never have it paid off, I will never be able to discharge it in bankruptcy, even though the amount now owed is four times my yearly salary. Student loans are exempt from bankruptcy and cannot be discharged regardless of the ability of the debtor to pay except in instances of terminal illness or death. A judge may decide a debtor does not have the ability to pay any other debt, and discharge it, but those who hold student loans have a special protection from the government that allows them to divert social security payments, child-support payments, and garnish wages. It's time to take away that special protection for the banking industry and put student loans on a level field with all other consumer debt.